FROMMEL CARL
Pittoreskes Italien
Date: Lipsia,Kollmann,1840 about
Cod 29345
Subject: Italy
1.000,00 €
In 8° (240x140 mm); 3 parts in one volume, pp. X, 574, (4) with 103 steel engravings outside the text, including 52 city views, 48 costumes and scenes, mostly by Pinelli and Gail, slightly smaller, and 3 steel vignettes on the title pages. Beautiful travel descriptions in Italy divided into "Ober-Italien" by W. Von Luedemann, "Unter-Italien" by Karl Witte. German text. Among the beautiful views are the Simplon, the lakes of upper Lombardy, Milan, Trento, Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Genoa, Turin, Bologna, Perugia, Siena, Florence, upper Lazio, Rome and surroundings, classical Naples and surroundings, Reggio Calabria and Scilla.
An elegant example in all-Maroon Morocco with refined Neoclassical blind embossing on the covers, concentric scroll-worked frames, gilt fillets, a large floral medallion in the center of the covers, and a gilt title on the spine with rich gilt friezes and edges. An excellent example with minor foxing.
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